%0 Journal Article
%T Singley, Carol J. Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature.
%A Helena Maragou
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2012
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.9465
%X Carol S. Singley¡¯s Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature focuses on literary representations of adoption in selected canonical and non-canonical texts from the Puritan era to the early 20th century, to show the ways in which adoption as a trope or narrative event highlights the historical evolution of American nationhood, family ideology, identity, and citizenship. Singley interprets adoption broadly to refer to the ¡°care of children by non-biological paren...
%U http://ejas.revues.org/9465